The listed Stockyards andSlaughter Plantsat this linkhave been approved for deliveries against the CME Group Live Cattle futures contract from February 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014. Delivery point information and contact numbers are listed for your reference.

If there are any questions, please contact the Deliveries Unit at 312.930.3172.

The attached Stockyards and Slaughter Plants have been approved for deliveries against the CME Group Live Cattle futures contract from February 1, 2014 through January 31, 2015. Delivery point information and contact numbers are listed for your reference.

Please be advised in coordination with the USDA and CME approved stockyards, the following live cattle grading capacity limits at stockyards are in effect beginning with the February 2014 live cattle delivery cycle. The capacity limits at the stockyards have been instituted to ensure stockyards have the wherewithal to grade cattle on eligible delivery days and a USDA grader is available for grading the cattle. The capacity limits are not static and are subject to change based on changes such as stockyard wherewithal or USDA grader availability.

Effective Thursday, January 30, 2014, for trade date Friday, January 31, 2014, and pending all relevant CFTC regulatory review periods, please be advised that the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (EXCHANGE) will change the Floating Price reference and the names of the products listed below on CME Globex, Open Outcry and available for submission for clearing on CME ClearPort.

·Current Floating Price: The Floating Price for each contract month is equal to the arithmetic average of Platts Group Three Unleaded Gasoline mean minus the NYMEX RBOB Gasoline Futures first nearby contract month settlement price for each business day that both prices are determined during the contract month.
For purposes of determining the Floating Price, the Platts Group Three Unleaded Gasoline mean will be rounded each day to the nearest thousandth of a cent.

·New Floating Price: The Floating Price for each contract month is equal to the arithmetic average of Platts Group Three Sub-octane Gasoline mean minus the NYMEX RBOB Gasoline Futures first nearby contract month settlement price for each business day that both prices are determined during the contract month. For purposes of determining the Floating Price, the Platts Group Three Sub-octane Gasoline mean will be rounded each day to the nearest thousandth of a cent.

Clearing/Globex code: A9/AA9

·Current Product name: Group Three Unleaded Gasoline (Platts) Futures

·New Product name: Group Three Sub-octane Gasoline (Platts) Futures

·Current Floating Price: The Floating Price for each contract month is equal to the arithmetic average of the Platts Group Three Unleaded gasoline mean for each business day that the Floating Price is determined during the contract month.

·New Floating Price: The Floating Price for each contract month is equal to the arithmetic average of the Platts Group Three Sub-octane gasoline mean for each business day that the Floating Price is determined during the contract month.

Beginning with the February 2014 contract, the New York Mercantile Exchange is revising the expiration rule for the Mini Argus Propane (Saudi Aramco) Futures (Clearing/Globex Code MAS), from "the last business day of the contract month" to "the last business day of the month prior to the contract month". The new termination schedule will be the same as the big contract, Argus Propane (Saudi Aramco) Futures (9N), after revision.

In addition, the New York Mercantile Exchange is revising the expiration rule for the Argus Propane (Saudi Aramco) Futures (Clearing/Globex Code 9N), from “the last business day of the month prior to the contract month” to “the last business day of the month prior to the contract month. Business days are based on the Singapore Public Holiday calendar”.

CME currently administers three different guaranty funds for IRS, CDS, and “Base” products. In conjunction with the new CFTC Regulation 39.33, CME plans to amend the types of collateral eligible to meet guaranty fund requirements in an effort to align composition with the CFTC’s definition of qualifying liquidity resources.

Pending regulatory review, effective April 1, 2014, the following asset types will be acceptable collateral for any CME Clearing guaranty fund.

Recently, CME Group began accepting morning position adjustments via a morning PCS file. This allows for an automated solution, where traditionally, morning position adjustments were executed only via the CME Group Positions User Interface.

Messages within the new file should be in the same format as the nightly PCS file, and may be submitted even if there has been no change in position. The only difference between the nightly file and the morning file, other than possible quantity differences, is the name of the file itself. The naming convention for the morning PCS file is:

PCSADJ.CMF_xxx.xml, where “xxx” is the firm number submitted in the nightly file.

CME Group will accept files with a BizDt representing either the current (morning) or prior (most recent night cycle) Clearing Business Date. This means that, other than the file name, the standard PCS process may be used to create the morning adjustment file, with one exception: current day’s trades may not be included in the PCS positions reported in the new adjustment file, while as-of trades should be included in the file. A step should be added to the beginning of the standard process to remove the new day’s trades (but not as-of trades) if they exist.

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